Physicochemical properties of silk fibroin after solubilization using calcium chloride with or without ethanol

Food Science and Technology Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-42

  Miyaguchi, Yuji ^a   Hu, Jianen ^b  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Calcium chloride; Fibroin; FT IR; Gelation; SEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344487566     PISSN: 13446606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3136/fstr.11.37     Document Type: Article

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